Box with ink painting (Khajo Bridge, Isfahan)

Description

The above work is another popular Marmaris box in dimensions of 12×7. This marble box has a picture of Zayandeh Road and Khajovi Bridge of Isfahan in the old days, painted by the artist Masoud Jangharban.
The main reference of this design is not the present-day Khajovi bridge of Isfahan, but a painting in the book of Orientalism. This book was written by French artists who visited Isfahan during the Safavid era, and in the architecture section of Isfahan, they depicted some prominent buildings, including Khajo.
One of the main attractions of this work is the use of mixed water technique; A technique in which the colors are very diluted with water before coloring, that’s why we have very transparent and so-called spiritual colors. In mixed water technique, the artist uses at most two colors, and Masoud Jangharban artistically chose two colors, turquoise blue and brown for this work.
Of course, despite this limitation in the number of colors, the artist has executed all the details of the bridge, including its openings and entrances, the stone steps of the bridge, the people passing by, all of them beautifully and elegantly.
Another artistry and taste of his in this painting is that in its many parts, he used the space of stone to draw the details of the landscape, such as the stonework next to the steps of the bridge in the river, which is divided into several parts with the help of stone lines and the volume of the steps has done